As if I needed any justification, here is SCIENTIFIC PROOF that being a crankypants is GOOD for you.

Meanwhile, Improbable Research.com, the same people who present the IgNobel Prizes (and who did NOT give an award to Barack Obama this year), looked into the question “Is Kansas flatter than a pancake?” and have come up with irrefutable SCIENTIFIC proof! You won’t see stuff like this on MythBusters, lemme tell ya. (Mostly because it doesn’t involve anything blowing up.)

“Dammit Jim! I’m a doctor not a….oh, wait… Barack Obama will probably cancel funding for further testing of the Ares rocket (here’s the video of the most-recent test, in case you missed it), but even if NASA does get to continue with preparations for sending a manned mission to Mars, they may not be able to overcome a newly-discovered hurdle: long-term spaceflight puts astronauts at greater risk for developing diseases.

And this story made the rounds the other day: naked mole rats do not get cancer. But they still go through life looking like giant, self-propelling penises with claws and teeth, so that’s a pretty fair tradeoff.

See Also

• May 18, 2010 -- Mission To Mars…Sort Of
• October 14, 2009 -- Random Acts Of Blogging
• May 20, 2008 -- Follow-Ups
• May 16, 2008 -- Your Daily Moment Of Zen
• May 5, 2008 -- Tastebud Revival